{"id":61139,"date":"2020-01-16T21:18:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T02:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=61139"},"modified":"2020-01-16T21:18:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T02:18:14","slug":"taz-signs-multi-year-deal-with-aew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/01\/16\/taz-signs-multi-year-deal-with-aew\/","title":{"rendered":"Taz Signs Multi-Year Deal with AEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>All Elite Wrestling (AEW)<\/strong> had <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/01\/15\/aew-dynamite-renewed-through-2023-second-straight-to-series-show-being-planned\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its TV deal extended for another 4 years<\/a> with TNT on Wednesday and as revealed in the press release, TNT is looking to add a second AEW broadcast to the channel&#8217;s line-up of shows. &#8220;In addition,&#8221; the press released revealed, &#8220;the parties have agreed to launch another night of AEW action, offering more of the fans&#8217; favorite wrestlers, with a second show straight to series.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking News &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEWDynamite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AEWDynamite<\/a> Extended Through 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cZHeqGdcRs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/cZHeqGdcRs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEW\/status\/1217484116230193152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, AEW announced they had signed former WWE and <strong>TNA\/IMPACT<\/strong> Color Commentator <strong>Taz<\/strong> to a multi-year deal, with <strong>Cody<\/strong> welcoming Taz &#8220;to the booth&#8221;. Taz was in Miami on Wednesday, calling the action for another episode of <em><strong>AEW Dark<\/strong><\/em>, with much speculation that <em><strong>AEW Dark<\/strong><\/em> will be leaving YouTube to relaunch on TNT. Taz previously appeared for AEW in a guest position <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IHFghxZMi5I\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on the October 22, 2019 edition from Philadelphia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEWDynamite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AEWDynamite<\/a> was extended to 2023 by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tntdrama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@tntdrama<\/a> and Today we are happy to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialTAZ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@OfficialTAZ<\/a> has signed a multiple year agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AEW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dX99wxdfvR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/dX99wxdfvR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEW\/status\/1217838923050881027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Taz transitioned to a color commentator role with WWE as part of <em><strong>SmackDown<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;s booth alongside <strong>Michael Cole<\/strong> in 2002, remaining with the company until 2009. Following his departure from WWE, he showed up shortly after his leave with TNA, making his debut in the broadcast booth in August 2009. In 2015, he departed TNA. Taz made his pro wrestling debut in 1987 and throughout the 1990s became one of <strong>ECW<\/strong>&#8216;s top stars, becoming a 2x ECW World Heavyweight Champion, 2x ECW World Television Champion, and 3x ECW World Tag Team Champion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61142\" style=\"width: 373px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61142\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/01\/0fbc6737349631fc3128a4263783bc6a-e1579227135621.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"500\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can catch AEW Dynamite every Wednesday night at 8:00 pm Eastern, 6:00 pm Pacific on TNT and internationally on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fite.tv\/join\/aew-plus\/?v=1\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AEW Plus on Fite TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Elite Wrestling (AEW) had its TV deal extended for another 4 years with TNT on Wednesday and as revealed in the press release, TNT is looking to add a second AEW broadcast to the channel&#8217;s line-up of shows. &#8220;In addition,&#8221; the press released revealed, &#8220;the parties have agreed to launch another night of AEW [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":61143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4677,2,6],"tags":[4133,5729,2264],"class_list":["post-61139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-aew","tag-aew-dark","tag-taz"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}